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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag was detected near La Gomera in Guatemala

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes 61 kilometers (38 miles) from La Gomera in Guatemala on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -91.2709° West, 13.5743° North, depth 35 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/01/20 / 2020-01-11 02:16:50 / January 11, 2020 @ 2:16 am. The temblor was reported at 20:16:50 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us70006y2u. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70006y2u. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Escuintla, Santa Bárbara, Patulul (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 97 km (60 miles) from Escuintla (c. 103 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa (c. 62 100 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from La Gomera (c. 24 000 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Puerto San José (c. 18 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Tiquisate (c. 18 200 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Patulul (c. 14 200 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Santa Bárbara (c. 12 900 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 61 km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-91.2709° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	13.5743° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	61km SSW of La Gomera, Guatemala	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-11 02:16:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-11 02:54:57	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	355	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.03	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	139	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us70006y2u	Id of event.
Event Code	70006y2u	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70006y2u,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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